El “policial traumático” en tres novelas de Roberto Bolaño

Abstract

The uses of detective fiction codes in Roberto Bolaño’s narratives are part of the new generic appropriations in Latin American fiction of recent years. In novels such as La pista de hielo, Una novelita lumpen, Amberes or El Tercer Reich, detective fiction is blurred within crime, mystery, the banality of evil, loss of clues and the useless search of the detective, or the reader, in a plot hiding a latent violence. Detective fiction is one of the generic modes that Bolaño uses to constitute a narrative of various threads, opening to new dimensions rather than settling in closed versions. There are traces of the genre that dilute in a narrative marked by the writing of the trauma and the trauma of writing. We will explore these topics in La pista de hielo, Amberes and Una novelita lumpen